"Is it such a bad thing to believe in freedom and equal rights?" She laughed, tiredly, before shaking her head. "If we didn't go hunting for them? They'd enslave us. Take away our freedom - we do it to protect ourselves." But he was right - people like Emerson, like Ambrose, maybe even Derek to an extent, didn't deserve it. But it didn't mean most of them didn't. She'd never seen Stiles looking quite so serious before, and she wasn't sure what to say.
"... Why do they need to own us? Why can't we just live side by side? Let them live where they want, let us live where we want? Instead of running, and hiding, and living in fear, living constantly on the defence in case we get picked up and bought? I know they handled Scott wrongly, but... They aren't completely wrong. Not all the time."